David Schraub

A friend was kind enough to take this photo! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Legendary exchange.

Cenk Uygur is up to his usual wrecker behavior in Michigan, which you know (a) because he's spending only $1,000 on his "ad" -- so you know it exists only to make people mad, not be seen by actual voters -- and (b) because he's Cenk Uygur, and wrecking is what he does.

El-Sayed disavows the ad. Good. Wish he also said it was bad, but I’ll take it. Cenk can go to hell. www.jta.org/2026/10/26/p...

I mean, when he's right he's right. It would be the voters' fault!

[doing my best Zapp Brannigan-as-Shatner-as-the-Kinks] "LULA! L-U-L-A Lula!"

When you click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email from HP. (Who the hell is FRANK?)

GOP 2026: “Protect girls sports from unfair trans competition.” GOP 2028: “Protect white sports from unfair black competition.”

This is such a cool story.

As AIPAC announces its retreat from campaign contributions and endorsements, I take no pleasure* in pointing out that I predicted their foray into this space would backfire spectacularly from the moment they first announced it. * I'm kidding: I take a ton of pleasure in it.

You can refuse a pardon. So at minimum, day one of a D admin ask all affected fed employees: “Do you accept or refuse the pardon?”, and if they accepted it, they’re immediately fired.

I’ve been dying to share this news for weeks and now I can finally tell you. I sold my book!

On a visit to a Buddhist monastery in Japan, I was surprised by my visceral unwillingness to participate in a ritual. On the blog, I reflect on that reaction and how it might inform efforts to reform antidiscrimination law. Also, there's a picture of a cute deer in front of the subway entrance.👇

SCOTUS making its first move to go after race-neutral high school admissions standards:

I don’t care if it costs me my political future: I will never disavow Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood.

All my political donations will go to the next DA who manages to meaningfully go after spam/scam texters/callers. (I know many of them are based in SE Asia, but some definitely aren't, and they deserve to have every inch of our runaway, bloated carceral-industrial complex shoved down their throat).

I'll tell you my leans for Portland races this November, you tell me why I'm wrong and I should vote for someone else.

I think there's a decent chance that if Dems win the presidency with a trifecta in 2028, Roberts retires, and I think we should understand that as a gesture of good faith and return the favor by agreeing to only expand the Court to 11 rather than 13.

I guess I understand people being underwhelmed by Kotek, but I don't get the appeal of Drazan at all, aside from the classic brain-rotted "things aren't great now, but maybe if we elect someone worse it'll get better!"

The Portland City Council elections are fascinating, in that they're hotly contested, multi-seat RCV races with widespread voter dissatisfaction re the status quo, and yet it feels extremely likely that every incumbent will win again (to the consternation of basically everyone).

Every so often the ghost of Ted Stevens is roused to claim vindication: “It IS a series of tubes!”

After living through a few years of vice-signaling, virtue-signaling doesn’t seem so bad anymore.

Being untenured is like being a baby pig on a farm. You look at senior faculty and are like “these guys are my friends! They feed me and shelter me and nurture me…. They’re so caring!” And they look at you and are like “we probably shouldn’t give this guy a name in case we need to, you know…”

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

I CANNOT not read this as "St. Pancreas".

Yes, the rule against viewpoint discrimination still applies even when we're talking about pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

Three years ago today, on October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel and carried out a deadly, horrific attack, murdering around 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages. Families were torn apart in a single morning. We remember every one of them.

Is weight loss this week because started Zepbound, or because started flu? (Or both!)

Among the alleged statements by the professor: “The goyim have woken up, Jew. Run. Flee. Leave.”

Nobody likes being a disappointment to a child. Nobody cares about being a disappointment to an adult. As a certified adult, that's sometimes rough.

The striking thing about this chart is how clearly it shows that, for many, "immigration" is primarily a means of rendering moral judgment about whole nationalities. Far more people are MAGA-on-Somalis than they'd ever admit (they just swap some countries around). h/t @jackkessler.bsky.social

The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses

It took me zero seconds to guess this was Chikli.